Carol Sweetenham: further publications

‘Mother of Mercy, is This the End of Thomas? Villains to Heroes: the Transformative Power of Crusade’,  The Medieval Chronicle 17 (2025) 98-121.

`Crucifixion, Cross and Crusade: Crusading Terminology in Old French Crusading Chansons de Geste`. Crusade: The Uses of a Word from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Benjamin Weber. Crusades subsidia; London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 97-106.

`The Wonders of Nature: Imaginary and Imagined Animals in the Fictional Universe of the First Crusade`, The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages ed. Elizabeth Lapina and Jessalynn Bird. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 113-136.

Heroic Deeds and Heroic Failure: Robert of Normandy and the Portrayal of the First Crusade in 12th and 13th Century England, Medievalista 34 (2023)

`1095 And All That: Brief Reflections on Social Memory and the `Non-Canonical` Texts of the First Crusade`. The Medieval Chronicle 15: Essays in Honour of Erik Kooper, eds. Graeme Dunphy and Sjoerd Levelt (Leiden: Brill, 2023) 291-304.

 `Urban Myth: The First Crusade and a Foundation Narrative of Conquest, Settlement and Defeat in the Principality of Antioch`. Chronicle, Crusade and the Latin East: Essays in Honour of Susan B. Edgington, eds. Andrew D. Buck and Thomas W. Smith (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022) 255-271.

 ‘ “In Frenssche bookys this rym is wrought”: Looking for the First Crusade in Anglo-Norman and English Narrative Poetry’. Oltre la mer salée: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Société Rencesvals, ed. Dorothea Kullmann and Anthony Fredette (Toronto: PIMS, 2022) 229-241.

 ‘When the Saints Go Marching In: the Memory of the Miraculous in the Sources for the First Crusade’. The Crusades: History and Memory. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and Latin East, Odense, 27 June – 1 July 2016, eds. Kurt Villads Jensen and Torben Kierkegaard Nielsen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), vol. 2 55-75.

 ` “Por Ce Qu’I Mielz l’Entendent Qui Ne Sunt Letrée”: Translating the Story of the First Crusade’. Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East, eds. Gil Fishhof, Judith Bronstein and Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel (London: Routledge, 2021) 209-22.

 `2000 Cows and 4000 Pigs at One Sitting: Was the Gesta Francorum Written to be Performed in Latin?’ The Medieval Chronicle 13, eds. Erik Kooper and Sjoerd Levelt (Leiden: Brill, 2020) 266-88.

 ‘Papal discussions in a chanson de geste: the depiction of crusade, the Lateran Council and the split personality of the Canso de la Crozada.’. Literary Echoes of the Fourth Lateran Council in England and France, 1215-1405, ed. Maureen B. M. Boulton (Toronto: PIMS, 2019) 124-44.

 ‘Reflecting and refracting reality: the use of poetic sources in Latin accounts of the First Crusade.’ Literature and the Crusades, eds. Linda Paterson and Simon Parsons. (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018) 25-40.

 ‘ “Eu ne cug encar far bona canson novella”: les origines et le développement de la chanson de geste historiographique occitane’. Revue des Langues Romanes. 121.1 (2017) 15-42

 ‘ “Cançon glorieuse escouter”: writing the Old French Crusade Cycle as a text for performance.’ Actes from 2015 Rencesvals conference.

 ‘The Count and the Cannibals: the Old French Crusade Cycle as a Drama of Salvation’ in Jerusalem the Golden: the origins and impact of the First Crusade, eds. Susan B. Edgington and Luis García-Guijarro (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015) 307-28.

 ‘What really happened to Eurvin de Créel’s donkey on the First Crusade? Anecdotes in sources for the First Crusade’ in Writing the Early Crusades: Text, Transmission and Memory  eds. Marcus Bull and Damien Kempf, (Woodbridge: Boydell 2014) 75-88.

 ‘A Twentieth century levitron in a thirteenth century chanson de geste’: Epic connections/rencontres épiques: Proceedings of the nineteenth international conference of the Société Rencevals, Oxford, 13-17 aôut 2012 ed. Marianne J. Ailes, Philip Bennett and Anne E. Cobby

 ‘Crusaders in a hall of mirrors: the portrayal of Saracens in Robert the Monk’s Historia Iherosolimitana’ in Languages of Love and Hate: conflict, communication and identity in the medieval Mediterranean, ed. Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012) 49-64.

 ‘How History became Epic but lost its identity on the way: the half-life of First Crusade epic in Romance literature’, Epic Studies: Acts of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals for the study of Romance epic, ed. Anne Berthelot and Leslie Zarker Morgan, Olifant 2008.

 ‘Antioch and Flanders: some reflections on the writing of the Chanson d’Antioche’, Epic and Crusade: proceedings of the colloquium of the Société Rencesvals British Branch held at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 27-28 March 2004 ed. Philip Bennett, Anne Cobby and Jane Everson (Edinburgh: British Société Rencesvals, 2006) 131-51.

 'La Canso d'Antioca; histoire et légende. Perspectives sur la bataille d'Antioche', La Croisade: Realites et Fictions. Actes du colloque d'Amiens, 18-22 mars 1987, ed. Danielle Buschinger (Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag,1987) 97-109. (published under the name C. Dewberry)

Forthcoming articles

‘The Crusader Who (Probably) Never Was: Paulin Paris, the Chanson d’Antioche and French Nationalism.’ Forthcoming in Crusades.

`"Legitur in Historia Antiochena”: the First Crusade in Dominican Sermon Exempla. Exegesis, Sermons, Liturgy: New Pathways in Crusade Studies, Heidelberg conference November 2022.

`Crusaders in Fairyland: the chanson de geste and cultural rescue of the events of 1187`. Forthcoming in Crusades.

`The Road to Jerusalem: a Study in the Ways of Inventio in the Sources of the Old French Crusade Cycle.` Forthcoming volume edited by Natasha Hodgson and Léan Seoine Ni Chleirigh.

`Veracity, Verity and Verisimilitude: Fictionalising Crusade in the chanson de geste`. Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Crusade Texts, Images and Artefacts, eds. Linda Paterson and Simon Parsons

'Heading Them Off at the Pass: the Cultural Transmission of the “Pas Saladin” Theme'. Joint article with Richard Leson. Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Crusade Texts, Images and Artefacts, eds. Linda Paterson and Simon Parsons.

Other publications

Contributed articles on First Crusade sources and Occitan chronicles to Encyclopaedia of Medieval Chronicle

Contributed article on Old French epic to the Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500 (ed. David Thomas, London: Bloomsbury, 2022)

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